Excellent comment .... IMO our lack of playoff success in previous years can be attributed to the other teams goaltender outperforming ours. The timely saves we didn't get and they did turned games around ... it made games closer and made them believe they could outscore our players when talent wise it shouldn't have even been an issue.I don't get all the people here that say goaltending was our problem...you should be dancing in the streets. We have a top 5 goalie in the league! Did you think he would come for cheap? We have the most important piece that this club was missing for the last decade, and I believe it's easier to replace goal scoring than it is to find a quality goalie.
So now we have that top five goaltender .... we should be happy because Luongo he is a very pertinent piece of the puzzle for any championship team ... Yes he wasn't cheap and it cost us some scoring in Bert ... but the reality was that Bert was unfortunately struggling with many issues and we weren't really getting the production out of him either.
So for those who consider to blame the acquisition of Luongo on our scoring woes its not completely accurate .... there are many factors contributing to our lack of production ... IMO drafting and scouting is probably the biggest problem we have that needs to be addressed ... at least from a long term perspective.
We can hypothetically trade for a scorer now but when he leaves the underlying problem will still be there ... unless ... we can scout and draft well and have players coming up through our organization. Its also for the most part cheaper salary wise to get a young budding superstar through the draft than trade for a veteran or proven scorer who likely already comes with a hefty price tag.
Grizz